This week, his “resignation watch” has been over how Labour plans to deal with the Legacy Act. A previous incumbent, Johnny Mercer, spent so much of his tenure on resignation watch that it was difficult to tell whether he was ever fully in the government or not.
The role has also had an interesting effect on other ministerial roles held by veterans of other sectors. For a good while now, resentment has been brewing in the violence against women and girls (VAWG) sector towards the Government’s commitment to its own pledge of halving VAWG within a decade.
The sector now seems to have reached a point where many of its members are wondering if Phillips should also be on resignation watch in protest at the Government’s failure to make as much progress as expected on its pledge. They want to keep faith with the Phillips they know, a campaigner who, like Carns, isn’t prepared to compromise. But they are wondering when they will see her impact on government policy.
They had not expected a £53m funding announcement for a programme called Drive, which aims to change the behaviour of particularly high risk perpetrators of domestic violence – but no accompanying money for their victims.
Drive is by its nature quite controversial: some campaigners think it is wrong to focus on only high-risk perpetrators when VAWG is so widespread. Others argue that it cannot exist in isolation from support for victims.
Underlying the angry reaction from charities across the sector including Women’s Aid, Rape Crisis England and Wales, Victim Support, Southall Black Sisters and others, is an anxiety that the Government just isn’t putting enough effort into a pledge that was always going to be nigh-on impossible to meet. One charity boss says: “A mission to halve VAWG wasn’t achievable, but it was exciting and galvanising. It has taken a year to completely erode this goodwill.”
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It isn’t clear how ambitious it will end up being. It will be a cross-government strategy, forcing departments which have traditionally shrugged off VAWG as not their problem to engage fully, including Education, Health and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Home Office sources argue that there has been important action already on policing, and protection orders, and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has been travelling to other countries, including Spain, to examine how they tackle abuse and violence against women. Cooper repeatedly says that VAWG is the driving mission of her department.
Isabel Hardman is assistant editor of The Spectator magazine
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